Wednesday, August 27, 2008

This frog isn't like the frogs that you find in your area. The Strawberry Poison Dart Frog is a highly venomous frog, you don't die from his bite, but from his skin that contains toxins. Living in the amazon forest and South America it is a frog whit thousands of under species with different kinds of colors. Sadly this kind of frog suffers because of the illegal smuggling of them to other countries for a price of only 30$. Take a look at this video how the Strawberry Poison Dart Frog reproduces himself, it's just amazing.

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